Quotes (2)

[On prepping the cast of The Insect Trainer]Timothy Carey: First I'd take a big fart in front of them. That's always a big help. I always thought if you really want to be a good actor, you've got to be able to fart in public. That, to me, is the most important. If you are so inhibited that you can't fart, I don't mean around your friends, I mean just a fart, out loud somewhere. I don't mean the 'silent creeper', everybody does that. I mean fart out loud! Just that you can do it and not be afraid of it. Humility is very important.

[On Paths of Glory]Timothy Carey: Let me tell you an interesting story about Paths of Glory. In the execution scene there was no dialogue but I started to speak, so Kubruck said, ‘Bring in the sound!’ I kept saying, ‘I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die’, so Kubruck comes up to me and says, ‘Tim, you better make this good, Kirk [Douglas] doesn’t like it’, but of course they used it.

Trivia (18)

Timothy attempted to sneak into the Marines when he was 15.

Timothy's feature film debut was in 1951's The Big Carnival.

Timothy was cast in Spartacus, but his scenes were never filmed.

Timothy met his wife in Germany while filming Paths of Glory.

Timothy was stabbed with a pen by Marlon Brando, after he was frustrating him on the set of One-Eyed Jacks.